Monday will mark the one-year anniversary of Kaká announcing his retirement from soccer. In some ways it seems like yesterday but in others it seems like an age ago.
The Brazilian was Orlando City’s first MLS captain and he left his stamp on the team in his three seasons as a Lion. The club never put a good enough team around him to fully weaponize him for Major League Soccer, but he left us with plenty of magical moments in his time in Central Florida.
The first thing Kaká did for Orlando City was to energize the city of Orlando and inject excitement into the community about the upcoming move to Major League Soccer when he was announced in July of 2014.